ANNUAL REPORT 2019 CLEANAWAY WASTE MANAGEMENT LIMITED ABN: 74 101 155 220 CONTENTS 1 Overview / FY2019 Snapshot 2 Chairman’s Report 6 CEO’s Report 8 Footprint 2025 12 2 Business Review / Solid Waste Services 14 Industrial & Waste Services 16 Liquid Waste & Health Services 18 3 Sustainability / Bringing our mission to life 20 A better way for people 22 A better approach to safety 24 Better community & 26 customer partnerships Managing our assets to 28 minimise our impact Better greenhouse gas management 30 for a sustainable future 4 Corporate Information / Board of Directors 32 Senior Executive Team 34 5 Financial Report / Financial Statements 37 Directors’ Report 38 6 Other Information / Other Information 135 The Company’s 2019 Annual General Meeting will be held at 10am (Brisbane time) on Friday, 25 October 2019 at the Long Room, Customs House, 399 Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland 4000. 2019 Corporate Governance Statement and Appendix 4G Disclosures are available on our website at https://www.cleanaway.com.au/about-us/for-investor/corporate-governance/ / CLEANAWAY WASTE MANAGEMENT LIMITED We’re energised for our mission of making a sustainable future possible… for people, for the planet, and for our investors through sustainable performance. In 2019, we began a new journey to bring all those elements together with a focus on People, Markets, and Assets, to deliver strong Financial returns and make a sustainable future possible. 2019 Annual Report / 1 we care... about results snap FY2019 shot Statutory results Underlying results $2,283.1 million revenue s33.2% $2,283.1 million revenue s33.2% $2,109.1 million net revenue 1 s34.8% $2,109.1 million net revenue 1 s34.8% $433.7 million EBITDA s34.2% $461.6 million EBITDA s35.9% $217.6 million EBIT s45.7% $240.8 million EBIT s44.7% $123.1 million NPAT 2 s18.9% $139.9 million NPAT 2 s42.8% 3.55¢/share dividend s42.0% 3.55¢/share dividend s42.0% 6.0¢/share eps s7.1 % 6.9¢/share eps s30.2% 1 Net revenue is a non-IFRS measure and excludes landfill levies. 2 Attributable to ordinary equity holders. Financial highlights 3 Net Revenue ($m) EBITDA ($m) EPS (¢) Dividend (¢) $2,109m $462m $6.9¢ 3.55¢ s35% s 36% s 30% s42% 15 16 17 18 19 15 16 17 18 19 15 16 17 18 19 15 16 17 18 19 3 Underlying results. 2 / CLEANAWAY WASTE MANAGEMENT LIMITED Overview / Operations at a glance Cleanaway is Australia’s leading waste management, industrial and environmental services company. With our dedicated team, national network of specialised infrastructure assets, and one of the largest fleets of waste collection vehicles on Australian roads, we’re working towards Community Our Mission of making investments a sustainable future possible, for all Australians. We know that change starts at home – and that genuine engagement and working in partnership with the communities in which we operate is an important part Employees of our path for the future. 5,900+ $805,000+ Vehicles Invested in Australian communities 4,950+ 800 Sites Education programs held nationally 300+ Prized infrastructure 27,780+ assets Students engaged in school-based education programs nationally 115+ 2019 Annual Report / 3 we care... about results what we FY2019 recovered Each year we focus on recovering more resources from waste – returning valuable commodities to the value chain, the first step toward making a more sustainable future possible. >380,000t >15,500t >25,000t Paper and Cardboard Plastic Steel and Aluminium Closed Loop Oil Recycling E-waste ~6,250t >115ML E-waste Used oil Protecting our environment by keeping hazardous materials such as lead and Our lubricating and engine oil collection mercury out of the environment, we’re and recycling services close the loop also recovering valuable materials such in oil usage, helping to reduce Australia’s as copper, silver, gold and platinum. reliance on virgin refined oil. Our BluBox technology breaks down next generation e-waste such as LCD TVs and laptops, extracting harmful mercury and mercury vapour, before using an optical sorter to separate the e-waste into its recyclable components. 4 / CLEANAWAY WASTE MANAGEMENT LIMITED Overview / Container Deposit Schemes Turning Landfill Gas into Renewable Energy Containers collected since inception1 ~115M m3 2.24bn Landfill gas captured, generating Return and Earn, NSW ~135m kWh 760.8m of renewable energy, enough to power Containers for Change, QLD >27,400homes In FY2019, we were proud to continue our partnership with Return and Earn, and the We’re capturing the gas generated NSW Government as Network Operator, from the natural breakdown of running the collection and sorting services waste in our landfills, turning it into out of our Eastern Creek Container Sorting electricity, then returning it to the Facility. We also commenced services grid, to power homes. This reduces supporting logistics and processing for our Greenhouse Gas emissions Containers for Change in QLD across and our reliance on non-renewable Greater Brisbane, Hervey Bay and power sources such as coal. logistics across Cairns. Safe and Sustainable Healthcare Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Scope Scope 1 + 2 ~1.1m ~820kt CO2-e Sharpsmart collectors washed Greenhouse gas emissions through Daniels robotic washlines Cleanaway’s resource recovery activities Reusable sharps containers make sure go to reducing greenhouse gas emissions; that only the waste inside is disposed both Cleanaway’s direct emissions, and of and destroyed, whilst our robotic emissions that would otherwise have washlines mean that the used container occurred throughout our communities. is hygienically cleaned, ready for reuse, We are continually looking at ways to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, support further emission reduction, from as well as plastic and cardboard waste. expanding the footprint of our recycling operations to fuel and energy efficiency. 1 Based on containers processed since inception of the schemes. 2019 Annual Report / 5 we care... about the future Chairman’s Report “FY2019 has been another successful year for your Company, with increased earnings and a further increase in dividends to shareholders.” waste management services across the country. A major focus of the Board and Management is the health and safety of our employees and contractors. Our business, like most industrial, logistics and infrastructure businesses, faces daily operational and situational hazards. We have a responsibility to ensure that all our employees and contractors go home safe. A great deal It is with great pleasure that I of effort is expended throughout the present to you the Cleanaway Company to make sure this is the case. Waste Management Limited 2019 Annual Report. Our total recordable injury frequency rate has reduced by 8.1% to 5.7 The financial performance recorded compared to the previous year. While in FY2019 across all our business this is an improvement, we always segments continued the strong need to do better to achieve our Goal positive trends we have reported over Zero. Further details about our focus to the past four years. reach Goal Zero are set out elsewhere The integration of the Toxfree in the Annual Report. business, which was acquired in Net revenue, which represents gross FY2018, is well on track to achieve revenue less landfill levies collected the $35 million synergy target by June and passed through to the customer, 2020. The acquisition has proven to be increased 34.8% to $2.11 billion highly complementary to Cleanaway compared to the prior corresponding and has strengthened our total period. This led to an increase in 6 / CLEANAWAY WASTE MANAGEMENT LIMITED Overview / EBITDA of 34.2% to $433.7 million Combined with the interim dividend of In closing, I would like to thank the and EBIT which was up 45.7% to 1.65 cents per share paid earlier in the management team led by Vik Bansal $217.6 million. year, the dividends declared in respect and all our employees for their These results were due to improved of FY2019 totalled 3.55 cents per considerable efforts in “making profit performances by our three share, an increase of 42.0% compared a sustainable future possible” for business segments – Solid Waste to the total dividend paid last year. Cleanaway. I would also like to thank Services, Industrial & Waste Services As shareholders would be aware, my fellow Board members for all and Liquid Waste & Health Services. our mission is “to make a sustainable their wise counsel and support this past year. On an underlying basis, EBITDA future possible”. This goes to the heart increased 35.9% to $461.6 million of why Cleanaway exists and how we and EBIT increased by 44.7% to as a business will continue to prosper. $240.8 million. You can read about our sustainability initiatives in the Annual Report. Further Earnings per share increased 7.1% to enhancements to our sustainability 6.0 cents and on an underlying basis metrics are currently being worked on, Mark Chellew increased 30.2% to 6.9 cents. and I look forward to reporting this to Chairman Cleanaway is in a very strong financial shareholders next year. position. Our balance sheet is in Consistent with the enhanced focus excellent shape, with all our debt ratios on our sustainability metrics, we well within our banking covenant have recently renamed the Health, requirements. Our average debt Safety & Environment Committee maturity at 30 June 2019 is 3.8 years as the Sustainability Committee. The and we have $318 million of headroom Committee will now be responsible under our banking facilities. To further for reviewing the Company’s strengthen our debt portfolio, we are strategies, systems, policies and currently assessing the use of longer practices in respect of the Company’s tenor debt. sustainability framework. Our strong financial and operational As part of its usual succession performance, and confidence in the planning activities, the Board is future growth of the Company, has currently undertaking a search for a again allowed the Board to increase new Non-Executive Director.